ECTC Overview and Membership

The Electronic Communications Technical Committee (ECTC) is responsible for all aspects of electronic communication for the Artemis Society. This includes maintaining the mailing lists, web server, and newsgroups that are used for communication among members of the Artemis Society. The ECTC also provides information about Artemis on various on-line services and maintains gateways to on-line service forums and bulletin board networks.

The ECTC is unique among the Artemis Technical Committees because the issues of Electronic Communication impact just about every aspect of the Artemis Society. Greg describes the ECTC as "the functional equivalent of departments responsible for facilities, internal communication, security, logistics, repro, the mailroom, community relations, and even publications". Because of the different roles that the ECTC plays, there are three different types of members in the ECTC:

• Members - These are people who are actively involved in the various tasks of the ECTC. They are doing the actual work of the ECTC itself.

• Reps - Because the activities of the ECTC impact every Technical Committee of the Artemis Society, it is important that strong lines of communication exist between the ECTC and all other Technical Committees. To provide those lines of communication, we hope to have at least one person from every other Technical Committee belong to the ECTC as a Rep of that Technical Committee. Reps are responsible for keeping their Technical Committee informed of activities in the ECTC and relay requests from their Technical Committee to the ECTC. Reps may also be active Members of the ECTC if they are active in both committees.

• Observers - Not considered official members of the ECTC, observers are people who want to stay informed of what goes on in the ECTC, usually by being included in the ECTC mailing list or related information feeds.

If you would like to join the ECTC, fill out and submit the form at the bottom of this page. To see what activities are currently going on in the ECTC, look at the ECTC Task List. To volunteer for one of those tasks, fill out and submit the form on the Task List page.

Most of the discussions about ECTC activities occur in the ECTC mailing list, asi-ecomm@asi.org. When you join the ECTC, you are automatically subscribed to the ECTC mailing list, so you don't need to subscribe to the list separately. The ECTC produces a monthly status report that is mailed to the artemis-list@asi.org mailing list. Archives of previous status reports are available in the 1996, 1997, and 1998 ECTC Status Report Archive directories. The ECTC holds monthly real-time meetings using Internet Relay Chat (IRC). For more information about the ASI IRC meetings, look at the Real-Time Meetings section of the Artemis Data Book. Transcripts of past ECTC IRC meetings are available from the ECTC IRC Transcripts page.

You can see pictures of some of the ECTC members in the ECTC Picture Gallery.

The current membership of the ECTC is as follows:

Members

Reps

Observers

Joining the ECTC

The Electronic Communications Technical Committee always welcomes new members, reps, or observers. If you would like to join the ECTC, please fill in the form below and join the team! If you are using a browser that doesn't support forms, send mail with the type of member you would like to be to severy@asi.org.

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